Top 15 Sergey Lavrov Quotes

The war, which we are trying to stop, which was launched against us using Ukrainian people, of course, influenced the policy of Russia, including energy policy.

Zelenskyy smokes or injects himself or snorts so much stuff that it is impossible to comment on his words.

"Лавров: политическая цель США направлена против дружбы Москвы и Киева", RIA Novosti, 12. februar 2023

The political goal of the United States is directed against the friendship of Moscow and Kyiv.

When we speak about what is happening in Ukraine - it is a war, not a hybrid one, almost a real war, that the West has been plotting for a long time against Russia.

This war is being controlled by the Anglo-Saxons.

We will certainly help the Ukrainian people to get rid of the regime, which is absolutely anti-people and anti-historical.

We are determined to help the people of eastern Ukraine to liberate themselves from the burden of this absolutely unacceptable regime.

If the West delivers long-range weapons to Kyiv, the geographic goals of the special operation in Ukraine will expand even more.

We cannot allow the part of Ukraine that Zelenskyy, or whoever replaces him, will control to have weapons that will pose a direct threat to our territory and the territory of those republics that have declared their independence, those who want to determine their future on their own.

The geography is different. This is far from being only the DPR and LPR. It is also the Kherson region, the Zaporizhzhia region and a number of other territories, and this process continues, and continues consistently and persistently.

I didn’t invite anyone to pose for a photo together with me.

The Russian people in Ukraine continued to be discriminated against across the board. Laws banning the Russian language were adopted and Nazi practices (theory and practice of Nazism) were established.

Russia has an unblemished reputation and is not ashamed.

We did not invade Ukraine. We declared a special military operation because we had absolutely no other way of explaining to the west that dragging Ukraine into Nato was a criminal act.